Well of course she does the reason she doesn’t have breasts in the anime is because she she didn’t hit her growth spurt yet. In the movie Kino’s some what older now.

Sorry i had to make this observation when i saw the first pic while searching on google.

Hmm, I can’t let this one slide… ^^

Although on purely moral issues, I agree that sacrifices can be made to advance humanity or science (mind you that this is a very touchy subject =p), but the nazi experimentation yielded close to zero practical data. The few pieces of research that could have practical uses are heavily disputed and usually condemned for a lack of accuracy and scientific methodology.

Consider this: if you were living in the camps without any sort of hygiene and you are offered a bar of soap which you know is made of human fat, i.e. the corpses of executed prisoners, would you use it?

Anyway, this was just to make sure no one forgets about the horrors of the war, I was not around to face them, but I will not forget them.

@ Michael: It’s just you. Inasha’s parents are olddddd.

@ Vadigor: Admittedly, I’m not exactly an expert in the field. But speaking on moral grounds alone, while it wouldn’t leave a pleasant feeling afterwards, I’d probably suck it up and say that the suffering of few is worth the betterment of many.

@ Martin: Indeed, there’s never enough Kino, 30 mins wasn’t enough. I await the translation of further novels, I bought the first one and loved it to death.

@ Avisch: While I agree with your last sentiment, it’s never a good idea as a country to let your secrets fall into the hands of random people, it can and often will come back to bite you in the ass. His trying to kill Kino was a logical choice.

Anyway nice review. and I don’t think anyone will disagree with that fight being anti-climatic (I should definitely watch the Coliseum’s anime episode…Shizu and Kino fighting was awesome)

I also think that fight was sort of pointless in the story (I’m criticizing the original story, not this anime episode). Cole could have easily said “Please don’t tell anyone about this” and Kino would have gone “Whatever LOL the 3 days are up anyway”.

The only thing thing that disappoints me is that this is only 30 minutes long – I’m basically looking forward to a bonus episode really. Surely there’s enough content in the original novels to make at the very least a feature-length movie, if not a second season (which really would be something)? Either way I’ll be watching this tonight for sure. ^_^

“the results were invaluable, they weren’t about to toss away the research data just because it was gained by immoral means, they used it and many medical advances were made because of it.”
I understand your point of view regarding the possible value of the famous nazi experiments, but I’m afraid you’re doing the reverse of condemning it. Yes, you aren’t condoning the research, but saying that the results were invaluable and contributed to medical advancement is a bit much.

Please remember: most of the experiments offered no scientific value what so ever, virtually none were experiments in the true sense (meaning no objective course of action was taken, hardly anything was actually analyzed), and most of the experiments centered around ’studying’ a human’s endurance towards extreme conditions.

‘Experiments’ such as the effects of typhus, malaria, phosphor, sulfur, poison and the infamous twin experiments offered no scientific data and were not much more than ingenious death sentences.

One of the few experiments of interest was the hypothermia research under Sigmund Rascher, and his research remains one of the most controversial ’sources’ to date. Due to a general lack of scientific procedure his highly unethical research material is usually rejected.

I doubt that anyone would misinterpret your statement, but I felt like explaining it in more detail. It also depends on how much you actually know of the nazi human experimentation history, since it’s one of the more obscure fields of history.

I’d like to advise everyone to read up on this regrettable piece of heritage, it gives a rather interesting insight in the human condition. For something related, check out the Japanese human experimentation. It’s a lot less well known, although you may have heard of Unit 731…

Hmm this turned out longer than expected. ^^